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NIPPERS' FOR OPENING BOTTLES.

Patented May 16, 1882.

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" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.J. ALBERT SCHMIDT, OF NEW YO R -N. Y.

NIPPERS FOR OPENING BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,982, dated May 16,1852. Application filed March 16, 1882. (No model.) Patented in GermanyJanuary 9, 1882, No, 16,578.

T all whom "it may concern Be it known that I, J. ALBERT SCHMIDT, of thecity, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Nippers for Opening Champagne-Bottles, of whichthe. following is a specification.

This invention relates to improved nippers for cutting the threads andwires of champagne or other bottles at one operation and it consists ofhandles which are pivoted at their outer ends and provided near thepivot with arc-shaped portions having cutting-knives and as shown inFig. 1, or made in one piece with the arc-shaped portions B B,as shownin Fig. 2. The handles A A may be provided with a spring, b,a regulatingset-screw, d, and alocking-hook, e, at the lower end of the handles, ofwhich the setting-screw is used for adjusting the nippers for larger orsmaller bottles;

but these devices are not essentiahand may be dispensed with, as shownin Fig. 2. The handles A A are further provided .with short auxiliarywire-cuttin g nippers D .l),which extend beyond the pivot a, and whichare used in case any one of the cutters 0 becomes unfitfor use, or incase any one of the wires should not be cut by the cutters.

For using the nippers thecutting-knives are placed in position on thebottle a short distance belowits inonth,and then the fastening wires ortwine cut by pressing the handles together. In this manner all the wiresand the twine are cut at the same time, and thereby the troublesomecutting of the same with the present means dispensed with.

Having thus described myinventionflelaim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent- As a new article of manufacture, a pair of nippers forcutting the cork-fastening wires and strings of bottles, the handles ot'which are bent into arc-shaped portions adjoiningthe nippers andprovided with cutting devices concentric to the arc-shapedp0rtions,substantially as set forth. i

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have signed my name inpresence of two subscribing witnesses.

J. ALBERT SCHMIDT. Witnesses PAUL .GOEPEL, CARL KARP.

